Excellent update - thank you.

I understand drugging when you're new at the game. You're a noob then, you don't know any better. But when you reach higher ranks ... I honestly don't get it. At higher levels, I expect players to have moved beyond basic blow-em-up fun to more strategic gameplay. Apparently not. Drugs are the reason that I almost exclusively play pro battles on the Russian servers. I will GLADLY surrender 5,000 crystals a month for the privilege of not dealing with Zeus/M4 Mammoths/M4 Vulcans that use non-stop double power drugs and then use health power-ups right before they overheat. If Tanki ever stops offering pro passes and pro battles, then you can go ahead and write Tanki's obituary. And on the tombstone, it will read "Killed by Drugs."

I tried to purchase crystals at 1430 UMT, but the Payment Wall page is only pulling up a blank page after I press the "next" button/icon. Is anyone else having an issue with this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X-Xwz67IMo "Let me in, I'm starving!"

Good move because ... (1) I won't have to read "Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I'm just here for crystals!" messages during battles in Stadium; (2) crystal hogs will have to participate in battles now; they won't be deadwood that occupies a player slot but contributes nothing to a battle; (3) I will read fewer "***** I was trying to get crys" messages; (4) I will read fewer "OUT OF MY WAY I NEED CRYSTALS" messages (4) players will have to stay for the WHOLE battle to earn crystals; Oh, and did I mention that I won't have to READ ANY MORE MESSAGES FROM IDIOTS ASKING NOT TO BE KILLED IN A DEATH MATCH BECAUSE THEY ARE THERE FOR THE CRYSTALS? I wasn't sure if had mentioned the MORONS ASKING NOT BE KILLED IN DEATH MATCHES BECAUSE THEY WANT TO TAKE ALL OF THE CRYSTALS, AS IF NO ONE ELSE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN CRYSTALS. Well, now it is time to attend my anger management class.

Thanks so much for the fix - I greatly appreciate it. (No more squinting or zooming in with my touch screen is a definite plus.) Regarding the servers, it seemed that the "full" servers weren't particularly full when you counted the actual number of battles and players. Thanks again for help with the technical issues.

I use Google Chrome to play Tanki. For the last three days, when I land on the main page/home page, the view is incredibly small. It fits entirely in the middle third of my screen, and i have to zoom in to read anything on the home page. Once I select "fight" and enter a server, the screen is a normal size. However, this leads to the second new issue from the last three days ... English server capacities are showing up as maxed out when there are maybe 150 players on a given English server, well below the typical 2,500+ it takes to max out a server. There are few battles on the English servers and I find myself spending more time on the Russian servers. Since I don't speak Russian or read the Cyrillic alphabet, it limits interaction with other players. Anyone else having this problem?

Since the number of English servers has been halved, it seems like I am encountering lag much more commonly - AND the lag lasts significant periods of time, i.e. easily a minute or more on numerous occasions. I quit two battles this morning because of frequent periods of extended lag. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? I appreciate the idea of reducing available servers to provide more potential opponents on each server. However, if the result of more players on fewer servers is increased lag, can anything be done on the server side to reduce the lag?